A group of seven persons participated in a poetry reading held in the Art Gallery on Moberly Area Community College’s campus yesterday afternoon (April 24).

“We do this twice a year, coinciding with my poetry classes” said MACC Professor of Language and Literature Mike Barrett, who read a poem to open the show, and then another to close it. Barrett said that he teaches one of the aforementioned courses at the Columbia branch of the campus, and one here on the Moberly campus.

The seating area of the arts gallery was filled for the reading, and persons viewed the event from standing-room-only areas, including the overhead walking balcony.

This year’s MACC-Moberly Poetry Reading lineup included Barrett, return reader Hayley Vomund, teachers Jill Mackey and Beth Lewis, newspaper writer Donna Monnig, Mika Lawrence (who joked with the crowd that she would attempt to not “faint or go into labor” during her reading), and Greyhounds basketball player Michael Luscombe.